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        Have always been curious about Bihar. Think about all those history lessons one learnt by rote. All those confusing dates that refused to register and the names of various kings in the  long lineage of dynasties. But even amongst all those pages of wars and exploits and secessions , the annals  of  King Ashoka [...]

Saw a film named ‘Traffic” while in Kerala recently.The main thread of the story is based on a real life incident of a little over two years go in Chennai. Dr. Ashokan and Dr. Pushpanjali had lost their son Hitendran in a car accident.The boy had not responded to treatment and had been declared clinically [...]

         What demons haunt the dark alleys of our mind…..this thought would often  echo like a refrain in those days when Nithari  awoke to fresh stories of the heinous details of the Pandher and Moninder duo. What really intrigued me was that one of the reports that was published in the papers  carried a small [...]

What if we could visually be aware of all the neuronic activity in our brain cells every time a thought crossed our mind? It would probably look like how the TV screen would appear  when the cable supply suddenly pops off and it gets inundated with those infinitesmally small particles colliding incessantly with each other. [...]

             “I’m too young to be old and too old to be young . I think I’m going crazy”,  that is what Evelyn(Kathy Bates) tells Ninny(Jessica Tandy) , the old lady she befriends in the nursing home  in the film “Green fried tomatoes”, which I watched last night.
  
         Remember that old Beatles number, [...]

      
       Happy Dussehra folksJ
         Been a while since I’ve been around here.  I guess that the Facebook has been engaging me quite a lot. It’s fun out there as of now, because I’ve been able to reconnect with so many of my friends, classmates and neighbours and there is a lot of catching up. But [...]

       I was feeling quite buoyant on my way back from the market. The carrier of my bicycle was loaded with all kinds of shopping that I had done. There was a kurta which I would try on as soon as I got back home. There were vinegar , soya sauce and tomato sauce bottles [...]

           They say there is something to be learnt from every experience in life. Well I’ve learnt quite a few things in the last one month in the course of my daily trips on my new bicycle  from my home to the school where I spend some of my time.
 
         First, do not let [...]

I was just viewing a slide show of pictures taken across the world on what is supposed to be “Women’s day” on the internet version of “The Hindu”. The varied images include protesters holding placards demanding the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and for stopping rape as a weapon of war in Burma, Katheryn [...]

         My dear friend Venkitesh called me up last night to say that he had decided to get me some books as plenty of water had flown under the bridge since the last time he got me one. How could I refuse, book-lover that I am. 

      So  this morning we [...]